Next month on CraigsList: “$720 million stadium for sale. Lightly used, low mileage, great location! Must sell fast!”

Hey, you forgot “something something gratitude something something”

I’m glad this guy loves snow! It’s really the first thing about snow to make me smile in a long time! The only thing I love about snow is staying inside while it happens, but unfortunately that’s not always possible!

I’m glad this guy loves snow! It’s really the first thing about snow to make me smile in a long time! The only thing I love about snow is staying inside while it happens, but unfortunately that’s not always possible!

Right. When this guy has been accused of criminal offenses, how can it possibly be the case that it’s “up to the voters”?

Exactly: the article was for the (many) white people who continue to think racists are those other people over there, and this snarky take-down of the article and the ignorance that needs it is for you. As long as we white people continue to be ignorant, we’ll be the subjects of snarky take-downs.

The undersigned signatories hereby vouch for Mr. Harriot that they are his white friends, and he has never complained about their dance skills, demeaned their potato salad or asked them why they kiss their dogs in the mouth.

Being embarrassed and shamed is not a terribly effective tactic for fighting racism, sadly.

And it was a Ph.D. with no publications, IIRC, which is almost a joke.

It does look like satire, but I would worry about anyone who could write such a letter for reasons detailed in this article:

With the power vested in me by the field of linguistics, I officially relieve you (and all writers of languages) of the responsibility of spelling homophones “correctly”. [Quotes to indicate skepticism about the appropriateness of that term in reference to language.]

That’s weird, because I still keep hearing that we didn’t need the civil war to get rid of slavery because the economy was changing such that free-market forces would have made slavery uneconomical...

Come on, let’s just admit it: fried chicken is delicious. I don’t know how that became some derogatory stereotype, it’s just delicious and we should all be eating more of it.

“However, I’m not sure why we are asked to have this exceptional amount of patience while these same people call for us to be wiped off the face of the Earth, and places themselves in positions to actually back that notion up.”

Well, when the protest became about “unity”, it was kinda inevitable...

Can we compromise that she is pretty much a dope?

Well, come on, they did make the evil race of elves black, inspiring generations of cos-players to feel justified wearing blackface...

Also, are racists attracted to D&D because it’s a bad gaming system for lazy, uncreative people, or because the creators thought, “Hey, let’s make the evil elves black. THAT’LL be a creative, non-stereotypical, non-racist choice!”

IDK...it could be phrased that way, and that would be different than, “imagine yourself as a KKK member.” Anyway, you seem like a very spiritually generous person who can imagine good motivations even when the way it’s phrased seems pretty bad to me.

There’s a difference between discussing something bad and seeking justifications for it. There isn’t a logical correspondence between being asked to empathize with the oppressed and the oppressor. There’s no slippery slope from saying, “Don’t ask kids to empathize with KKK members and justify racism,” to “Never…